how to delete all elements in a Lua table?

Question

How do I delete all elements inside a Lua table? I don\'t want to do:

t = {}
table.insert(t, 1)
t = {}  -- this assigns a new pointer to t

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Answer 1

for k in pairs (t) do
    t [k] = nil
end

Will also work - you may have difficulty with ipairs if the table isn't used as an array throughout.